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Letters Patent No. 66,515, dated `July 9, 1867.

STOVE-PIPE SHELF.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CON CERN:

Be it known that I,.LUTHER OLDS, of Battle Creek, in the county ofCalhoun, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and improvedAttachment for Stove Pipes; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference-being had tothe accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, inwhich- Figure lis a perspective view of a shelf which is adapted forbeing attached to and supported by a stove pipe.

Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 represent different forms of shelves andsupporting-racks applied to stove pipes.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

The object of this invention is to provide an attachment for stove pipeswhich shall serve a-s a. convenient support or holder for sad-irons,cover-handles, dat-holders, or any small article which may be requiredabout a. stove', and which it is desired to have handy when needed. Theinvention contemplates the use of a stove pipe as a post or standard forsupporting adjustable or permanently fixed shelvesor racks, or both, andprovides foikeeping the articles which are put upon the shelves frombecoming too hot, as will be hereinafter described.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I willdescribe several modes of carrying it into effect.

In the accompanying drawings, iig. l, A represents a circular band,which may be made of thin sheet metal, with its ends turned outward, soas to form ears, b b, for receiving through them the clamping-screw a.To this ring two small rods or wires, c c, are secured in any suitablemanner, which are bent outward and do'wuward, and rigidly secured to awooden shelf, A', having a vertical or right-angular ledge lor back, asshown. To the back and bottom of this shelf A a thin sheet-metalguard-plate, B, is applied, so as to leave an aircirculating spacebetween it and the shelfrproper, for the purpose of protecting thelatter from injury by the heat of the stove pipe. The guard .or fender Bmay be secured to the shelf A by means of the lips d cl, or in any othersuitable manner. Instead of using a ilat band of sheet metal forencompassing the stove pipe, and attaching the shelf thereto, a wire orround-rod ring or band, with clamping-screw, as shown in fig. 6, may beemployed, either alone or in conjunction with a baud, A. The object ofusing wood as a material of which to make the shelves is to preventarticles put upon the shelves from becoming too het. The wood being apoor conductor of heat, will not transfer its heat to articles upon itas readily as metal, and by having the sheetmetal guard or fender Binterposed between the stove pipe and the wooden shelf, this latter willbe protected from injury. In some cases, where'an economy of spaceis-not an object, the shelves may be arranged so far from the stove pipeas not to be under the inuencc of any considerable degree of heat. Underthese circumstances woodcn shelves may be dispensed with, and the metalshelves C and D employcdin their stead, as shown in figs. 2, 4, 5, and7. The shelf C is a circular ring, secured in a suitable manner to aband, A, `so thatby loosening the screw a, which is applied to thisband, the ringor shelf can be adjusted higher or lower, as may berequired. The shelf D is stepped, and sustained by means of rods thatare secured to its upper and lower ends, and that are slipped betweenthe stove pipe and the bands A A, as shown in iigs. 4 and T. Thesestepped shelves may be slattedlike a grating, so as to allow air tocirculate freely through them. If desirable, the shelves may be made ofwire-netting, or gauze properly strengthened, or, as in the case ofstepped shelves, they may be made of wood and metal combined, or theymay be made wholly of wood. Where it is not desired to have the shelvesadjustable they may be secured permanently to a stove pipe by hookingtheir-wire-rod supports intothe joints ot' the pipe, or rigidlyattaching the rods to the pipe in any other suitable manner. This modeof attaching the 'shelves permanently to a stove pipe is represent-ed intig. 3. I prefer 'to attach the shelves to agriping band or ring, A, sothat -they' can be moved up or down, or turned around to either side ofthe pipe, at pleasure. But I do not confine myself to the use of suchband or ring; nor do I confine my inven# tion to any particular form ormaterial in the construction of the-shelves to be supported by a stovepipe.

Having described my invention, what I claim as-new, and desire to securebyLetters Patent, is

A portable shelf, which is adapted for being secured to and .sustainedby astove pipe, substantially in the manner and for the purposedescribed.

' LUTHER OLDS.

Witnesses:

A. LArnvnn, C. F. DECKER.

